-7600 Ancient (-6404 TE/1 FA): The legendary even city of Arlathan is founded nearly three thousand years before the arrival of humans on the continent. The date is difficult to pinpoint in Chantry years and is not exact.

-4600 Ancient: Approximately at this time the elves make first contact with the dwarves.

-3100 Ancient: Records claim humanity arrives in Thedas around this date from the north in a single tribe known as Neromenian. This is disputed by scholars, who ask where humans came from and why they left.

-2850 Ancient: Elves first notice the quickening, which puts an end to their immortality and forces them to withdraw from human contact. This is thought to be mere legend.

-2800 Ancient: The Old Gods begin whispering to humanity from the Golden City. They teach the Dreamers of the Neromenian tribes magic. These Dreamers become the priests and rulers of their people.

-2415 Ancient: The Alamarri tribes cross the Frostback Mountains and settle in the lands that will eventually become known as Ferelden. Alamarri tribal legends say they were fleeing a "shadow goddess", but modern scholars believe they were escaping a sort of natural disaster.

-1815 Ancient: The Alamarri living near what is known today as Lake Calenhad break away, becoming known as the Avvars. The two tribes fight with each other for several centuries, though they unite when the need arises.

-1700 Ancient: The Neromenian tribes split and form four ancient kingdoms: Tevinter, Neromenian, Barindur and Qarinus.

-1610 Ancient: The entire kingdom of Barindur vanishes under mysterious circumstances. It appears to be destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

-1595 Ancient: Thalsian, also known as the First Priest of Dumat, is the first known person to wield blood magic, and the first magister. The Archon claims to learn this art after personally communicating with the Old God. The power he gained from blood magic allowed him to spark the birth of a future empire under his rule.

-1415 Ancient: The Chasind people break away from the Alamarri tribes and settle in the wild and unexplored Korcari Wilds.

-1207 Ancient: Darinius, the High King of Neromenian, takes control of the Tevinter throne, uniting the kingdoms of Neromenian and Tevinter under his rule.

-1200 Ancient: Archon Darinius ventures into the Deep Roads and forges an alliance with King Endrin Stonehammer, ruler of the Dwarven Empire.

The dwarven contests known as Provings become popular among the noble class of the Tevinter. A Grand Proving Arena is built in Minrathous.

0 TE/-1195 Ancient (6405 FA): Darinius unites the kingdoms Tevinter and Qarinus, forming the mighty Tevinter Imperium. He declares himself the first Archon. Prior to this event, only scattered fragments are known. It is believed that elves existed in the land first and that humans came from elsewhere—though there are many theories about from where that might be, and few historians agree.

Some suggest that humans came from across the ocean as the Qunari did, but if so, there is no record from such a time. Humans spread across Thedas - as various tribes of people known as the Hacian and the Alamarri, and those started other tribes such as Ciriane and the Planacene - but it is the Tevinters, centered on the port city of Minrathous, who became ascendant.

History records that elves and humanity were hostile toward each other and that Tevinter led the way in aggressive retaliation against the elven city of Arlathan. The elves responded by retreating from human contact, and Tevinter thus flourished and spread. The first "dreamers" learned the use of lyrium to enter the Fade from elven captives, and these dreamers later became the first of the Imperium's ruling magisters.

15 TE/-1180 Ancient: Archon Darinius of Tevinter dies.

25 TE/-1170 Ancient: The ruler of the dwarven empire, King Endrin Stonehammer moves the capital of the empire from Kal-Sharok to Orzammar, as trade with the surface becomes more and more vital for the prosperity of the dwarves and because of the internal turmoil caused in the Imperium following Darinius' death. Some attribute this move to Stonehammer's predecessor and ally, King Orseck Garal.

Stonehammer orders the construction of the legendary Stonehammer Hall in Orzammar.

The Orzammar Proving Grounds are expanded for the Grand Provings, previously held in Kal-Sharok. The winners of these Provings become the first of Orzammar's Paragons. Endrin Stonehammer builds of a hall to house huge statues constructed in their honor.

35 TE/-1160 Ancient: Taxes collected by Orzammar from Kal-Sharok's trade profits become onerous.

64 TE/-1131 Ancient: King Endrin Stonehammer is made a Paragon on his deathbed and becomes known as the "First Paragon" presumably for his vast accomplishments.

214 TE/-981 Ancient: The hostility that festered between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves finally turned into open war. Armies of the Imperium surrounded the fabled elven city of Arlathan.

220 TE/-975 Ancient: The Magisters resorted to a horrifying blood ritual that sank Arlathan into the earth, destroying it utterly and deciding the war in their favor. The conquest of the elven kingdom was complete: All those who did not perish with their city were enslaved, their spirit crushed and their ancient culture destroyed forever.

300 TE/-895 Ancient: The Tevinter Imperium expands rapidly, bolstered by its new elven slaves. The Imperium takes nearly all of northern Thedas and begins the conquest of lands across the Waking Sea.

315 TE/-880 Ancient: The Tevinter Imperium settles the island of Estwatch and fortifies its bay. The port is built for repairing warships.

435 TE/-760 Ancient: Archon Almadrius ascends to the throne of the Tevinter Imperium.

480 TE/-715 Ancient: The Tevinter Imperium begins several campaigns to subjugate the barbarous Alamarri tribes in the Fereldan Valley. After many near losses, they manage to hold the central area for a time and pave the Imperial Highway across the Frostbacks to the fortress of Ostagar.

483 TE/-712 Ancient: The First Tevinter expedition against the Avvars in the Frostback Mountains.

500 TE/-695 Ancient: The western part of the Tevinter rebels to form the Anderfels, mainly populated by the Yothandi people.

503 TE/-692 Ancient: Archon Almadrius is assassinated. His apprentice Tidarion inherits the throne. Civil wars break out in the Tevinter Imperium.

555 TE/-640 Ancient: Archon Tidarion dies without an heir. The civil war continues, and the magisters fight for power.

575 TE/-620 Ancient: Emerius, the last of the great Imperial cities, is founded in the distant south of the Imperium by the powerful magister, Emerius Krayvan. Elven slaves were brought in by the thousands to work the stone quarries, and suffered hardships that would give the city a dark and bloody reputation. In time it became known as the "City of Chains," the center of the Imperial slave market and the destination of all those captured by the spread of arcane rule.

Archon Parthenius claims the throne of the Tevinter Imperium. The end of the civil war in the Imperium.

620–640s TE/-575 to -555 Ancient: The largest civil war of the Tevinter is usually cited as when it began to decline markedly from its golden age. The magisters of the various noble houses wield terrible power but still seek more; their competition with each other leads to human sacrifice, and demon summoning becomes a regular occurrence. When two of the largest Tevinter houses battle to claim the Archon's throne, the Imperium is almost split in two.

The resulting war left ruins and battlefields where the magical taint continues to be felt to this day. Peace is brokered in the Senate to prevent the dissolution of the Imperium, but the nobility continues its oppression of the masses in an effort to achieve supremacy.

660 TE/-535 Ancient: After generations of independence, the Anderfels are reconquered by the Tevinter Imperium.

785 TE/-410 Ancient: A group of kossith is believed to land in the southern Korcari Wilds, establishing a colony. They are likely killed off in the First Blight, giving rise to the first appearance of ogres on the continent.

800 TE/-395 Ancient: According to the Chantry lore, the most powerful magister lords, seeking more power, open a gate to the Golden City at the heart of the Fade. The result is catastrophic: The Golden City becomes tainted, and the magisters bring the taint into the world, creating the first darkspawn.
The Old God Dumat is freed and transformed into the first archdemon.

The First Blight begins. The darkspawn attack en masse, concentrating at first on the underground Deep Roads of the dwarven empire. The dwarven kingdoms begin to fall by 815 TE and the race being at the brink of collapse, saved from annihilation by the actions of Paragon Aeducan. The darkspawn use the Deep Roads to appear throughout the continent. All of the Imperium is under siege and in a state of chaos.

Finally, the nations of the Imperium begin to settle in for a long war as they become accustomed to the surges of the darkspawn. Communication becomes difficult across the Imperium, but cooperation is paramount. The people of Tevinter pray to the remaining Old Gods for help against Dumat, but they receive only silence. With the people's faith waning, unrest sees many temples destroyed as the Imperial people begin to turn from the Old Gods, believing themselves betrayed.

The dark period lasts for over 200 years, extending post Blight.

840 TE/-355 Ancient: The Blight has yet to reach the Alamarri. They are instead caught up in a war with the Avvar. In the Battle of Red Falls, Alamarri warrior Luthias Dwarfson fights Morrighan'nan, Avvar warrior queen. Both die in the battle. The Order of Ash Warriors is founded in Dwarfson's honor.

890 TE/-305 Ancient: The Grey Wardens are founded at Weisshaupt Fortress in the Anderfels, dedicated to wiping out the darkspawn wherever they should rise. The organization is formed primarily of veterans from the countless battles against the darkspawn. They maintain communications within the Imperium and strike quickly wherever the darkspawn appear, quickly erecting fortresses everywhere and receiving tithes and supplies from all lands.

940 TE/-255 Ancient: The dwarven Paragon Caridin creates the first golem from the Anvil of the Void to battle the darkspawn terrorizing the Deep Roads. The dwarves begin to retake lost thaigs and reclaim parts of the Deep Roads.

947 TE/-248 Ancient: Caridin disappears along with the secret to creating golems, and the dwarven kingdoms continue their descent into oblivion.

992 TE/-203 Ancient: The Grey Wardens gather the forces of humans and confront Dumat at the colossal Battle of the Silent Plains in the southern reaches of Tevinter. Dumat is ultimately destroyed by the Grey Wardens and the darkspawn forces routed. Though the darkspawn are still large in their numbers and still battle mankind, they are no longer directed by Dumat's power and become scattered. The contracts ensuring the powers and rights of the Grey Wardens date from this year.

The prophet Andraste is born in the Alamarri lands. The exact year of her birth is hotly contested by scholars.

1000 TE/-195 Ancient: Slowly, the last of the darkspawn hordes are defeated. They are forced into the Far Steppes, west of the Anderfels, and into the Deep Roads. For the dwarves, the war continues underground, but for humanity, the battle is believed to be over. After centuries of fighting, the once mighty Imperium is now weak.

As the Deep Roads close, communication lines falter between the surviving dwarven kingdoms. Each thaig elects its own king while maintaining allegiance to a high king in Orzammar.

1004 TE/-191 Ancient: The Grey Wardens discover a number of intelligent darkspawn who can control portions of the horde even after Dumat's death. Warden Sashamiri arranges a trap to restrain and study one of these creatures, Corypheus, believed to be one of the Tevinter magisters who entered the Golden City and were corrupted into the first darkspawn two centuries prior. Corypheus is successfully imprisoned under the Vimmark Mountains in the southern Tevinter Imperium.

1008 TE/-187 Ancient: Andraste marries Maferath, an Alamarri chieftain.

1009 TE/-186 Ancient: Andraste preaches of a new creator, whom she calls the Maker. The more she says, the more her following grows. Maferath uses her teachings to unite the Alamarri clans under his authority.

1011 TE/-184 Ancient: The Tevinter Imperium's influence recedes in southern Thedas as Minrathous rebuilds.

The Chasind claim the fortress of Ostagar.

1014 TE/-181 Ancient: Warden-Commander Daneken realizes the futility of the Wardens' attempts to control or kill Corypheus and proposes instead to seal the prison off from the rest of the world and keep its very existence secret forever.

1015 TE or -180 Ancient: A massive horde of Alamarri cross the Waking Sea from the south led by the warlord Maferath and Andraste. Some records claim the barbarians were driven north by the darkspawn, others that Andraste was bringing freedom to the people of the Imperium who had been long oppressed by the depravities of the magisters. Regardless of the reason, the press of the barbarians in the south is accompanied by massive rebellions that welcome their progress. The invading army frees the elves, enslaved for centuries by the Tevinters. At the same time, the elven slave Shartan starts a massive slave rebellion, and the Tevinter magisters are forced to unite to combat the incoming threat.

The Tevinter Imperium abandons the island of Estwatch to focus on mainland troubles. The island remains largely uninhabited for ages.

1024 TE/-171 Ancient: Outside of Minrathous, the Battle of Valarian Fields is fought between the Alamarri and the Tevinter Imperium. Maferath is victorious. At that battle the elven slave Shartan takes Maferath's side and leads other elves in the fight against their Tevinter oppressors. He later converts and is made a disciple, only to have his writings suppressed following the Exalted March of the Dales.

The Alamarri army led by Maferath and Andraste lay siege in Minrathous. However, they fail to conquer the capital of the Imperium.

According to the Chantry lore, Maferath's jealously overwhelms him. Wanting to bring an end to hostilities and tighten his grip on conquered territories, he makes a pact with Archon Hessarian of the Tevinter Imperium.

1025 TE/-170 Ancient: Andraste is betrayed by her husband at the city of Nevarra, one of their strongholds, and taken to Minrathous. She is burned alive and then killed by Archon Hessarian.

Disciple Havard, loyal to Andraste, collects her ashes and carries them back to the Avvar lands in the Frostback Mountains.

1030 TE/-165 Ancient: After of the death of Andraste, the barbarian army disperses. Maferath is granted the lands south of Emerius. He takes Fereldan Valley for himself, while dividing what will become Orlais, the nation of Nevarra, and several Marcher cities between his sons.

The southern Tevinter Imperium breaks away, forming a collection of independent city-states. Maferath's sons unify several scattered tribes neighboring Alamarri lands; the tribes of Ciriane turns into the Kingdom of the Ciriane and the Planasene tribes into the Kingdom of the Planasene.

Both of these last less than a century — the Ciriane soon become the land of Orlais, while the Planasene become a part of the loose confederation across the plains called the Free Marches.

The land between the Waking Sea and the Frostbacks is given to the freed elves by Maferath as a homeland and is called the Dales. The Long Walk begins as elves from across the Imperium begin traveling to the Dales largely on foot and are preyed upon by disease and robbers, causing massive chaos.

1035 TE/-160 Ancient: A cult devoted to Andraste's teachings spreads rapidly in the south but is largely disorganized and is very unpopular with the temples of the Old Gods. However, Archon Hessarian converts from revering the Old Gods to the Cult of the Maker and reveals Maferath's treachery. The Alamarri abandon Maferath, and southern Thedas collapses into anarchy.

Back in the lands of the barbarians, groups which are claiming to be the Disciples of Andraste are formed, and the new religion begins to grow, referred to collectively as "the cults of the Maker."

Archon Hessarian converts the Tevinter Imperium to Andrastianism, beginning the Transfiguration.

1040 TE/-155 Ancient: The Ciriane in present-day Orlais unite in a moment known as the Grand Unification.

1060 TE/-135 Ancient: The Alamarri in Fereldan Valley fall into a long series of internal wars as various warlords attempt to replace Maferath.

Andraste's ashes disappear, revealed ages later to have been stored away at the Ruined Temple by the Disciples of Andraste.

1065 TE/-130 Ancient: The Chant of Light is created by Andraste's disciples, collecting her story and her teachings into hymns. Numerous versions of the Chant are written over time, with different interpretations of what Andraste taught about the Maker, each prevalent in different regions.

1070 TE/-125 Ancient: Archon Hessarian dies in his sleep. Many in the eastern and southern provinces of the Tevinter Imperium push for secession, fearing his successor, Archon Orentius will restore the Old Gods and their clergy.

1075 TE/-120 Ancient: Rebellion begins in the east as the Rivaini attempt to split off from the Imperium. The resulting campaigns to stop the rebellion distract the Imperium from its attempts to reconquer the Free Marches and allow the south to gather its strength. Many of the eastern cities in the Free Marches intervene on the behalf of the Rivaini.

1095 TE/-100 Ancient: The Inquisition is founded around this time. The loose association of Andrastian hard-liners hunt heretics and mages in the name of the Maker.

1151 TE/-53 Ancient: After several losses that culminated in the disastrous Battle of Temerin in 1142 TE, the Imperium finally abandons the east.

1151 TE/-44 Ancient: The Kingdom of Rivain is formed.

1155 TE/-40 Ancient: By order of High King Threestone the dwarves of Orzammar seal the Deep Roads that lead to the remaining kingdoms of Kal-Sharok, Gundaar and Hormak in a desperate bid to survive.

1159 TE/-36 Ancient: Castana Drakon, mother of Kordillus Drakon, is named gothi of the tribes of the Ciriane.

1160 TE/-35 Ancient: The dwarven kingdom of Hormak falls to the darkspawn and around this time the kingdom of Gundaar is overrun as well.

1165 TE/-30 Ancient: The city-state of Antiva expands and becomes a nation.

1170 TE/-25 Ancient: As the borders of the Imperium recede, Emerius becomes one of their lone outposts within a distant and violent frontier. The city is surrounded by the Kingdom of Ciriane, the barbarian Free Marches, the Alamarri, as well as the new elven homeland of the Dales. Despite its isolation, the city fought off many invading armies and did not fall until the slaves within the city finally rebelled, executing their Tevinter rulers in an orgy of violence.

Possession of the fortress city remained contested for centuries to come, but it would never again rejoin the Imperium. No longer under Tevinter rule, the city changed name to Kirkwall, and became part of the Free Marches.

1180 TE/-15 Ancient: The last of the Deep Roads are sealed, cutting off Kal-Sharok which is presumed lost to the horde. However, the dwarves of Kal-Sharok survive but never forgive the dwarves of Orzammar for their decision.

1184 TE/-11 Ancient: The cults of the Maker spread quickly in the southern lands, resulting in the commencement of construction of the first great temple in Val Royeaux which becomes the center of worship for the new faith. One of its most fervent followers is the young king of Orlais, Kordillus Drakon. Drakon begins a series of holy wars in the name of the Maker, quickly proving himself to be one of the greatest generals in history.

1192 TE/-3 Ancient: Having conquered several neighboring city-states and forced others to submit to his overlordship, Kordillus Drakon is crowned emperor of the new Orlesian Empire in Val Royeaux. His ambitions to spread farther north into the Free Marches are confounded by constant pressures from the Dales to the east.

The Chantry is formed by Emperor Drakon as he formalizes the Maker's cult an official religion. The emperor commands that missionaries be sent forth into the other lands, thus spreading the Chantry's teachings.

1195 TE/1:1 Divine: The first Divine of the Chantry, Justinia I, is instated at the still unfinished Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux.

The free use of magic is declared illegal in Orlais except by those mages operating under the direct auspices of the Chantry.

1:5 Divine: Zazikel awakens and the Second Blight begins in the Anderfels, with darkspawn slaughtering the entire city of Hossberg before the Grey Wardens finally get the word out. Now, rather than the darkspawn coming primarily from the west like they did before, they come out of the mountains in all corners of the continent. Once again, mankind is launched into a desperate battle for its survival over the course of the next 100 years.

Emperor Drakon calls on mages to use their magic against the Blight. The mages prove themselves to be effective allies in battle.

The Tevinter Imperium abandons the Anderfels and attempts to protect itself, a betrayal that is remembered by the Anders people even to this day.

1:16 Divine: In several engagements, including the hard-fought victory at the Battle of Cumberland, the Orlesians defeat several hordes of darkspawn, and numerous cities are saved. The Orlesian Empire under Drakon's command expands quickly, as does the influence of the Chantry.

1:20 Divine: The Nevarran Accord is signed between the Chantry and the Inquisition. The senior members of the Inquisition form the Seekers of Truth. The Circle of Magi and Templar Order is then born from this agreement.

The Circle of Magi is created as part of the Nevarran Accord. Mages are now formally permitted to practice magic under the close watch of the Chantry.

With the creation of the Circle, the Templar Order is formed to police magic use.

1:25 Divine: The people of Orlais are angered when the city of Montsimmard is nearly destroyed by the darkspawn as an elven army watched from nearby.

1:31 Divine: The darkspawn horde fails to overrun the Tevinter capital, Minrathous.

1:33 Divine: Emperor Drakon is given the opportunity to expand northward, but instead he chooses to swing his armies west and relieve the siege of Weisshaupt.

The Grey Wardens are impressed enough to convert to the worship of the Chantry, and together the Grey Wardens and Drakon save the badly weakened nation of Anderfels from destruction, making it a part of the Orlesian Empire and bringing it to a devout worship of the Maker that continues to this day.

Throughout the Second Blight, the elves of the Dales refuse to provide aid to their neighbors.

1:40 Divine: The Alamarri warrior Hafter unites the tribes and defeats the darkspawn horde.

1:45 Divine: Emperor Drakon perishes from old age in Val Chevin. His empire, forming the majority of the western Free Marches and all of the Anderfels, does not survive his death. His successor, Kordillus II, doesn't possess the political savvy of his father, and the Anderfels declares independence 20 years after the death of Kordillus I.

The teachings of Andraste are popularized in Antiva.

1:45–95 Divine: Over the next 50 years, the Chantry continues to spread rapidly, aided by the Grey Wardens as the Blight winds down.

The Chantry spreads east into the Free Marches and Antiva.

1:50 Divine: Hafter defeats combined Chasind and Avvar forces and holds the Fereldan valley. He is proclaimed teyrn.

1:65 Divine: The Anderfels once again declare their independence, this time from the Orlesian Empire.

1:79 Divine: Caspar Pentaghast, who would one day become the first Pentaghast king of Nevarra, is born in Hunter Fell.

1:95 Divine: The Free Marches and Orlais are hard-pressed to defend themselves, but the Grey Wardens and the Orlesian armies make the difference. The last battle of the Second Blight is fought at Starkhaven in the Free Marches. The human army is led by the Grey Wardens and takes a resounding victory, where Zazikel is finally destroyed and the darkspawn routed.

The period that follows is known as the "Rebuilding" - a time when trade, culture, and religion become paramount across most of the human lands.

Astyth the Grey is made a Paragon after sacrificing her life for the king. The Silent Sisters are formed in her memory.

1:99 Divine: Divine Hortensia I names the Glory Age, predicting a grand rebirth of the world after the devastation of the Blight.

2:5 Glory: Increasing hostility between elves and humans result in numerous border skirmishes between the Dales and Orlais.

2:9 Glory: Finally, the elven forces attack the Orlesian town of Red Crossing and quickly take it over. The atrocities they are said to have committed there against the villagers and the town's Chantry enraged humans across the land.

Orlais immediately went to war with the Dales, but was initially surprised by the ferocity of the elven response. A quick Orlesian victory was not going to happen.

2:10 Glory: In Alamarri lands, Hafter's grandson, Teyrn Caedmon, declares himself king. A civil war begins in opposition.

2:10–20 Glory: With elven forces having captured Montsimmard and marching on the doorstep of Val Royeaux, Divine Renata I calls for a holy war against the elves. This becomes known as the Exalted March of the Dales. While the elves eventually sack Val Royeaux in 2:14 Glory and push well into human lands, Halamshiral is conquered and the elves are completely crushed by 2:20 Glory.

The lands of the Dales come under Orlesian control, with elven settlements being uprooted and worship of the elven gods forbidden. The elves are forced to either live with mankind under their rule or wander as homeless vagabonds.

Divine Renata I orders the establishment of the first alienages.

2:15–45 Glory: The rise of Starkhaven prompts its king, Fyruss, to attempt to unite the Free Marches under his banner and build his own empire.

Antivan cities to the north unite under a common banner in 2:33 Glory to defend themselves against Fyruss's advance.

2:18 Glory: Caedmon is killed at the Battle of Valmorn Hills. The fight for power over the region begins. This period is known as the War of Crowns.

2:30 Glory: The Winter Palace, by far the most prominent structure in Halamshiral, becomes a regular seasonal retreat for the empress and selected Orlesian nobility.

2:34 Glory: Following the defeat of Zazikel in 1:95 Divine, there is general support of building fortified headquarters for the Grey Wardens. The fortress of Soldier's Peak in the Alamarri lands is finished after a decade of construction.

In 2:45 Glory, Fyruss is betrayed by his Tevinter allies, and Starkhaven is conquered by the Tevinter Imperium. By the time of his death, Fyruss's name is equated with that of prideful folly.

2:46 Glory: Caspar Pentaghast of Hunter Fell seizes control of the city-state Nevarra and becomes its king.

2:80 Glory: Starkhaven is freed from Tevinter rule during an Exalted March, the second in less than an age.

2:83 Glory: A conflict between templars and mages in the Nevarran Circle leads to an abomination slaughtering both parties and escaping to the countryside. In response, Divine Galatea grants the Right of Annulment to every Grand Cleric of the Chantry, and sends a legion of templars to hunt down the abomination. It is killed only a year later.

2:99 Glory: The Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux is completed, its two towers visible from miles around. The Towers Age is named.

Archon Vespasian is assassinated the same day that the Grand Cathedral in Orlais is completed.

3:00 Towers: Flemeth is said to be born in the Fereldan village of Highever.

3:06 Towers: King Caspar Pentaghast of Nevarra dies in his sleep at the age of 127, after a reign of sixty years.

3:09 Towers: The Right of Annulment is invoked in the Circle of Antiva for the third time since its inception. Hundreds of mages are put to the sword.

3:10 Towers: The Old God Toth awakens, and the Third Blight erupts in the central lands of Thedas with darkspawn coming in greater numbers than ever before. Darkspawn swarm the Tevinter cities of Marnas Pell and Vyrantium as well as the Orlesian cities of Arlesans and Montsimmard.

The Grey Wardens in both of these countries are able to quickly organize a defense, and despite heavy losses in the besieged cities, the darkspawn are pushed back.

3:18 Towers: Darkspawn ravage the Free Marches, attacking cities along the Minanter River. At first, the Orlesians and Tevinter do nothing, but constant pressure from the Grey Wardens in Weisshaupt convinces both nations to send aid to the beleaguered city-states.

3:25 Towers: The armies of Orlais and the Tevinter Imperium meet in Hunter Fell and join the Grey Wardens in the last battle of the Third Blight.

Toth is destroyed, and the darkspawn are slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles in history. The darkspawn carcasses are piled into mounds as high as 100 feet and then burned. The people of the Free Marches will not soon forget the image of the burning darkspawn.

Their goodwill is quickly crushed by the victorious armies as they decide to occupy the territories liberated from the darkspawn. Orlais takes the city of Nevarra, while Tevinter takes Hunter Fell.

3:41 Towers: The Canticle of Silence is declared dissonant by Divine Amara I.

3:44 Towers: The 'Rebellion of Three Dragons' begins near Qarinus.

3:49 Towers: Hunter Fell breaks away from Tevinter Imperium.

3:65 Towers: Nevarra achieves independence from Orlais.

3:86 Towers: Divine Joyous II is made head of the Chantry.

3:87 Towers: After many years of argument, the Schism splits the Chantry as the Imperial Chantry within Tevinter elects their own Divine, a male mage named Valhail, at the Minrathous Cathedral. The Imperial Chantry had always taken a more moderate view on magic and argued that mages should be allowed to rule so long as blood magic remained prohibited.

They also argued that Andraste was not of divine origin but rather was a mortal prophet with considerable magical talent and that her ascension to the Maker's side did not make her divine, even if she was a symbol of hope. Both these arguments did not sit well with the rest of the Chantry.

As the Val Royeaux Divine Joyous II took measures to restrict the power of the Circle of Magi within Tevinter, the Imperial Chantry took action. In Minrathous, the Divine is referred to as the "Black Divine" by most, and Chantry propaganda stirs popular sentiment against Tevinter and the Circle of Magi.

In Ferelden, the local Circle of Magi moves to Kinloch Hold after the original tower in Denerim is razed.

3:99 Towers: The death of the Divine Joyous II in Val Royeaux is celebrated in Minrathous and is declared a holiday by the Imperial Divine.

The Black Age is named as the Chantry calls for retribution against the false Divine of the north.

4:00 Black: Werewolves, long present in Fereldan lore, are said to reappear, assuming the appearance of regular people. The use of dogs as guards able to "detect" werewolves becomes common. An especially bloody chapter of Fereldan history ends with the apparent extinction of the creatures.

4:20 Black: Herbalists re-discover the "medicinal qualities" of elfroot.

4:22 Black: The Antivan King Guiomar the Younger meets his end at the hands of Callisti di Bastion, a soon-to-be legendary member of the Antivan Crows.

4:30 Black: The Rivaini-born Queen Asha Subira Bahadur, who will later become one of the most influential queens across Thedas, is born.

4:40 Black–5:10 Exalted: The Chantry declares a series of four Exalted Marches to destroy the "heathens" within the Tevinter Imperium. All four times, large armies are gathered from around the Chantry's domains, and an assault is launched deep into Tevinter. Every time, however, the Exalted March falls just short of its goal of conquering Minrathous.

In the end, the Exalted Marches serve simply to cement the separation between Minrathous and Val Royeaux. The Imperial Chantry starts to form its own dogma and policies, and the groundswell of mages fleeing from southern lands into Tevinter bolsters the Imperium's waning power.

4:45 Black: The most famous elven criminal in Orlais, Alidda of Halamshiral, is arrested for slaying twelve chevaliers. She escapes and kills twenty more, before cutting her throat to avoid capture.

4:46 Black: Divine Clemence I commissions Tevinter fugitive (and former magister) Adralla of Vyrantium to write the Litany of Adralla, a tool to protect against blood mages and demonic possession.

4:52 Black: The Great Riot of Val Royeaux occurs. Some historians allege that the riot was sparked by a performance of the lost play The Setting of the Light.

4:80–84 Black: The Orlesian Empire takes advantage of Alamarri's fractured state and crosses the Frostback Mountains to invade the land for the first time. However, the Alamarri teyrns set aside age-old differences to push the Orlesian Empire back.

The Orlesians hope to take the port of Highever, but the fortress of Redcliffe holds out too long, and winter in the Frostbacks leaves many Orlesian units without supplies. By the spring of 4:84 Black, most of the invaders pull out or are captured.

4:85 Black: Alamarri legends of Dane and the Werewolf are recorded about a time in the past when the tribes suffered repeated werewolf attacks until the hero Dane managed to slay the lycanthropes. The events these legends refer to most likely took place in the Divine Age.

4:90 Black: The famed Fortress Haine is built in the western Vimmark Mountains by Lord Norbert de la Haine, who uses it to stage numerous failed invasions of Marcher states.

4:99 Black: Divine Justinia II names the next age Exalted as the war with the Tevinter Imperium persists.

5:10 Exalted: The last Exalted March on the Tevinter Imperium ends in retreat for Orlais.

Calenhad the Great is born as the third son of a Highever merchant.

The Grey Wardens sign treaties with the various Alamarri teyrns, and build a fortress in Denerim, as well as several small outposts to watch for signs of darkspawn.

5:12 Exalted: The Exalted Marches against Tevinter come to an end with the awakening of Andoral and the outbreak of the Fourth Blight. Darkspawn appear in great numbers in the northeast and northwest of the continent.

The country of Antiva is overrun by Darkspawn. The Grey Wardens arrive to evacuate Antiva City but the royal family refuse to leave. The Antivan Royal Guard rebel and kill King Elaudio before they are stopped by the Wardens. It is publicly reported that he was killed by the darkspawn.

The Wardens evacuate the surviving royals and court members via Griffons. As they retreat they are attacked by the Archdemon and the surviving royals are killed along with most of the Wardens.

Using improvised Aravels supported by magic and drawn by Griffons, the Grey Wardens evacuate a large number of civilians from Wycome to Starkhaven.

The darkspawn pour into the Free Marches and Rivain.

The Blight rises in the Anderfels as well, and the capital city of Hossberg comes under siege.

Orlais and the Tevinter Imperium are attacked by fewer numbers and are able to drive the darkspawn back into the depths of the Deep Roads. Despite their success, Tevinter refuses to send any aid to the Free Marches or the Anderfels, while Orlais sends only a token force.

The dwarves of Orzammar assist the Imperium in lifting the siege of Marnas Pell however the Ortan Thaig is lost.

5:16 Exalted: Divine Hortensia II dies.

Divine Rosamund is elected. At nineteen, she is the youngest Divine in history. She was personally groomed for the position by Hortensia II.

5:20 Exalted: The Grey Warden, Garahel, leads an army of Wardens and Anders and breaks the siege of Hossberg.

Kirkwall declares the common nug as a noxious vermin over fears that the animals carried the Blight. The extermination became known the Battle of Squealing Plains.

5:21 Exalted: Darkspawn all but devastate the Free Marches. Chateau Haine becomes Fortress Haine, a makeshift Grey Warden garrison commanded by Isseya. A refuge known as the Retreat is dug into the mountain. At the most dire point of the Fourth Blight hundreds of fleeing Kirkwall and Cumberland residents call the Retreat home.

5:22 Exalted: Garahel gathers Wardens from Orlais and the Anderfels and marches to Starkhaven. At Starkhaven, Garahel organizes an alliance between the leaders of the Free Marches. A united army marches north, led under the banner of the Grey Wardens.

5:24 Exalted: Antiva is freed from the darkspawn during the infamous battle at the city of Ayesleigh, where Garahel dies upon slaying the archdemon Andoral. So many darkspawn are slaughtered in the battle that it is considered certain that they will never return.[10] That the Blight continues to be felt underground by the dwarves of Orzammar is largely ignored by most except the Grey Wardens. Most are eager for the war to end and for regular trade to begin.

Lambert Valmont, a young Orlesian captain, is declared a hero by King Azar Adalberto Campana of Antiva for coming to the rescue of the Antivan army during the Battle of Ayesleigh. Lambert weds one of Azar's daughters and the Valmont family is elevated to the nobility. Upon returning home, the Orlesian emperor is forced to match Azar's honors by granting Lambert a marquisate.

5:25 Exalted: Many griffons are killed during the Fourth Blight. Their numbers devastated, the creatures soon die out.

5:33 Exalted: Calenhad Theirin defeats Teyrn Simeon in the Battle of the White Valley and was named teyrn of Denerim.

5:37 Exalted: The first king of the Nevarran Van Markham family, Tylus Van Markham, is crowned after having claimed to be a descendant of Drakon's son, killed in Cumberland and killing the ruling Pentaghast king. Being a hero of the recent Blight, Tylus is able to stir nationalistic feelings in the western Free Marches against the growing power of Orlais.

He proves his military might by winning several major battles against the Orlesians, establishing Nevarra as a new, growing power.

5:38 Exalted: King Tylus Van Markham turns the western Free Marches against the growing power of Orlais. He wins several major border wars against the Orlesians, expanding Nevarra into a proper nation.

5:42 Exalted: With the crowning of King Calenhad in Denerim, the various warring factions of Alamarri are at last united under a single banner to form Ferelden. What had always been considered a land of wild, nomadic barbarians was finally a nation in its own right, though considered primitive and backwater by most.

5:71 Exalted: Divine Rosamund dies after fifty-five years in power. She leaves a legacy as one of the most compassionate women to ever occupy this post.

Divine Amara III is elected. The famously fanatical leader is said to enjoy bonfires fueled by burning maleficar. Her reign does not last long.

5:99 Exalted: Queen Madrigal of Antiva, is assassinated on a hunt, stabbed in the chest by four blades.

Divine Theodosia I receives news of Queen Madrigal's assassination. The image of the queen with four swords plunged into her chest haunts the Divine's dreams that night. Upon awakening, she declares the Steel Age.

6:15 Steel: Dragons are hunted nearly to extinction thanks to methods pioneered by the Pentaghast family of Nevarra. The Pentaghasts become known across the continent as legendary dragon hunters.

6:18 Steel: Fionne Theirin becomes the new Queen of Ferelden.

6:30 Steel: The Qunari land in Par Vollen which was loosely controlled by Tevinter Imperium and conquer it quickly, unbeknownst to the rest of the continent.

6:32 Steel: Word of Qunari invasion does not reach the continent until the Qunari ships begin to land en masse at the coasts of Seheron and northern Rivain. The Qunari Wars begin and last for the remainder of the century, and most of the next one.

6:35 Steel: Antivan city of Treviso is conquered by the Qunari.

6:42 Steel: The Qunari's initial advances are great: they have conquered much of the Tevinter Imperium, Rivain, and Antiva and begin to assault the Free Marches and force all they conquered to convert to the Qun.

Only Minrathous itself remains besieged but unconquered in the north.

6:50 Steel: The Avvar organize forces under the great warlord Balak and sweep into the heart of the Ferelden Valley in massive numbers. The Bannorn is put to torch.

6:52 Steel: The Avvar are pushed out of Ferelden proper. The period results in one of the worst famines in Fereldan history. Memories of Avvar savagery sour relations between the barbarians and Fereldan kings for ages.

6:55 Steel: The Hargrave Keep is built in the Fallow Mire.

6:85 Steel: The humans have organized themselves and pushed back hard enough that massive rebellions in Tevinter manage to free the Imperium, and the Qunari lines begin to crumble.

6:90 Steel: The Qunari besiege the city of Seleny. The appearance of a dragon, rumored to be called by the Witch of the Wilds Yavana, ends their effort and forces them to retreat.

6:99 Steel: Divine Hortensia III names the next age Storm, foreseeing a growing storm of violence across Thedas.

7:5 Storm: After losing the Fereldan throne to her cousin Arland Theirin, Sophia Dryden joins the Grey Wardens and rises to the rank of Warden-Commander in Ferelden.

Arland is considered by many to be a tyrant. Banns approach Sophia, asking her to intercede. She accepts and attempts a coup against her cousin using the Grey Wardens. After the bloody Battle of Soldier's Peak, Arland declares himself victorious with Sophia killed. The Grey Wardens are expelled from Ferelden and Soldier's Peak is abandoned.

7:23 Storm: the Qunari are pushed back to Seheron and Rivain, but they are well entrenched.
The Battle of the Nocen Sea is the largest naval engagement in history and results in a stalemate and the destruction of many of the ships on both sides.
With both sides exhausted, an impasse begins.

7:25–85 Storm: The Exalted Marches on the Qunari are declared, by both the Imperial Chantry - to retake Seheron and the eastern city of Qarinus - and the Andrastian Chantry - to retake Rivain.

During the Exalted Marches, Orlais manages to steal Tome of Koslun from the Qunari.

7:28 Storm: A dragon cult following the rampage of the High Dragon Urzara devastates the northern Free Marches until the dragon is slain by a group of militia men.

7:34 Storm: Archon Nomaran is elected directly from the ranks of the enchanters. He overturns the old rules forbidding mages from taking part in Tevinter politics.

7:44 Storm: The newly crowned emperor of the Orlesian Empire, Freyan, allows women to become knights, after witnessing the death of Ser Aveline, the Knight of Orlais.

7:52 Storm: The second New Exalted March ends in a disaster, as the Qunari capture much of Antiva.

7:54 Storm: The Qunari land in Estwatch and use it as a launching point for fleets of dreadnoughts.

7:55 Storm: Raiders from Llomerryn united under the banner of the Felicisima Armada. Together, their pirate fleets help turn the tide against the Qunari at sea.

A third and final Exalted March on the Qunari is called.

7:56 Storm: The Qunari, although on the retreat, manage to gain a foothold in the Free Marches by landing near Ostwick and launching assaults against Starkhaven and Kirkwall. Starkhaven prevails, but Kirkwall falls to the sorceries of the Saarebas in a daring night-time raid and is occupied until the end of the Third New Exalted March.

7:60 Storm: The Kirkwall City Guard is founded, after the city is liberated from the occupation of the Qunari by an Orlesian chevalier by the name of Ser Michel Lafaille, who becomes the first Viscount.

7:71 Storm: Etienne Valmont I is crowned Emperor of the Orlesian Empire.

7:75 Storm: Battle of Afsaana between Orlesian and Qunari forces.

7:78 Storm: The Felicisima Armada takes Estwatch following a massive naval battle with the Qunari.

7:82 Storm: The Pentaghast family takes over Nevarra from the rival Van Markham family. In order to secure their border with Orlais, they approach Etienne Valmont I with an offer of marriage. The emperor leaves his current wife of 17 years as she hasn't produced him an heir, and marries Princess Sotiria Pentaghast.

However, the Nevarran bride also fails to produce him an heir, and he forces her to join a chantry. Nevarra sends soldiers into Orlais, but only to retrieve the princess; they do not start a war with the empire. The princess marries another Orlesian by the name of Gustav LaFleur, and adopts his son, and names him Aurelian Pentaghast.

7:84 Storm: By the end of the Third New Exalted March, the Qunari have only one stronghold left on the continent: the city of Kont-aar.

By then, rebuilding all the destruction caused was considered more important than trying to dislodge the Qunari from Kont-aar once again. A meeting between envoys of all the human lands (except for Tevinter) and the Qunari at Llomerryn results in the signing of the Llomerryn Accord and peace being declared.

Peace is not established between Tevinter Imperium and the Qunari. Though skirmishes are few while the Qunari pull back to Par Vollen and rebuild.

7:88 Storm: The Chantry names Calenhad Theirin one of the Anointed as he was responsible for the spread of the religion in the entire kingdom.

7:90 Storm: Ceridweth of the Spiral Eye, one of the more popular apostates of The Gallows, is made tranquil.

7:99 Storm: The end of war with the Qunari and the birth of twin boys to Emperor Etienne I of Orlais usher in the Blessed Age.

8:5 Blessed: Kirkwall rebels against Orlais and gains the status of a free city.

8:10 Blessed: In a grand gesture, Qunari in Par Vollen welcome a group of Rivaini diplomats. The visit dispels many myths about Qunari society.

Emperor Etienne Valmont passes away, and his son, Reville Valmont, takes the throne and is crowned the Emperor.

8:24 Blessed: The Orlesian Empire, under the direction of the "Mad Emperor" Reville, launches the Second Orlesian Invasion of Ferelden. Thanks to the clandestine support of number of powerful banns undermining Ferelden defence, Orlais quickly establishes a strong foothold.

Vigil's Keep and the City of Amaranthine are taken by the Empire, as is Redcliffe. At the Battle of Lothering, King Vanedrin Theirin is killed and Calenhad the Great's sword, Nemetos, is lost. Ardal Cousland, Teyrn of Highever, is slain defending his king.

8:25 Blessed: Though Vanedrin is succeeded by his son, King Brandel Theirin, the youth is unable to unite the country beneath him, and for the next two decades, Ferelden is mired in blood and battle.

8:31 Blessed: The House of Repose accept a contract from the du Paraquette family to keep the mercantile activities from the Antivan Montilyet family outside of Orlais.

8:44 Blessed: The Orlesian Empire finally sacks the city of Denerim, claiming victory in Ferelden and driving King Brandel into hiding.

Though routed, the King and others among the true Fereldan nobility continue to wage guerrilla war against their oppressors.

When Brandel finally dies, several years after the birth of his grandson Maric Theirin, Orlais crowns Meghren as King of Ferelden, though Brandel's daughter, "the Rebel Queen" Moira Theirin - considerably more popular and charismatic than her father - keeps the resistance alive.

8:47 Blessed: Emperor Reville, fearing the court turning favor toward rival Grand Duke Gratien, has Gratien, his wife, three grown children, and all eight grandchildren murdered. The youngest, Camille, is only eight months old.

8:51 Blessed: Emperor Reville dies after spending more than a year locked in his room, fearing retribution for his assassination of the Gratien family. His son, Etienne Valmont II, is crowned the Emperor.

8:55 Blessed: War between the Qunari and the Tevinter Imperium continues as the Qunari land and conquer Seheron within three years. Tevinter is left on its own to fight its war with the Qunari, though the peace between the Qunari and other lands is considered fragile.

Several attempts by the Qunari to land on the continent and attack Tevinter directly are repulsed.

Emperor Etienne Valmont II of Orlais dies. His brother, Judicael Valmont, is crowned the new Emperor.

8:56 Blessed: The Judicael's Crossing bridge is built in Emprise du Lion.

8:60 Blessed: Aurelian Pentaghast, stepson of princess Sotiria Pentaghast, attempts to assume the Nevarran throne before it is revealed he is not a Pentaghast by blood. The disgraced Aurelian joins the dwarven Legion of the Dead, the only human ever to do so.

8:62 Blessed: The Antivan city of Treviso is burned to the ground after a fire started in a warehouse full of lamp oil.

8:70 Blessed: A war between Nevarra and Orlais over the control of the western hills around Perendale results in a Nevarran victory. However, Orlais proceeds to sow dissent and rebellion among the locals in Perendale, who resent Nevarran rule.

Emperor Judicael dies. His son, Judicael II is crowned the Emperor.

8:76 Blessed: In the coldest winter in centuries, Adain of Starkhaven, one of the more successful apostates, escapes the clutches of the Circle of Magi.

8:77 Blessed: The Hundred Days Cough epidemic begins in Orlais; it claims the lives of the twin sons of the Emperor Judicael II and the infant daughter of his brother Florian.

8:78 Blessed: Maric Theirin is born and the bloodline of King Calenhad is continued.

8:82 Blessed: Nevarra begins a bloody campaign of conquest within the Free Marches, encouraged by their taking of Perendale. They are stopped by Cade Arvale, who is named Champion of Tantervale for his deed.

8:84 Blessed: After Emperor Judicael II dies during a fox hunt, his brother Florian Valmont ascends to the throne of Orlais, much to his chagrin.

Eamon Guerrin, the future arl of Redcliffe, is born.

8:91 Blessed: Teagan Guerrin, younger brother of Rowan Guerrin and Eamon Guerrin, is born.

8:95 Blessed: The Witch of the Wilds in the Antivan Weyrs shouts a prophecy about the impending return of the dragons.

8:96 Blessed: Moira the Rebel Queen is assassinated by Bann Ceorlic and several other traitor nobles at the behest of the Orlesian King Meghren.

Endrin Aeducan takes the throne of Orzammar.

8:98 Blessed: The Fereldan rebels, led by the young Prince Maric, take the isolated port town of Gwaren, their first major victory since the death of Queen Moira.

House Tethras is exiled to the surface for denying the Voice of the Ancestors and willfully manipulating the sacred Provings.

8:99 Blessed: At the battle of West Hill, the Fereldan rebel army is devastated by the royalist forces. Survivors retreat to Gwaren. Maric is presumed dead.

With the aid of the Legion of the Dead, Prince Maric emerges from the Deep Roads under Gwaren and wins an important battle and is coming much closer in liberating Ferelden than he or his mother ever did. Afterwards, he also kills Bann Ceorlic as well as the other three nobles who betrayed and killed his mother.

Believed hunted to extinction, dragons emerge first in Antiva, then devastate rural Orlais and Nevarra. Another dragon is also sighted in the Orlesian side of the Frostback Mountains, just before the battle of River Dane.

In light of this, Divine Faustine II who was ready to declare the Sun Age, named for the symbol of the Orlesian Empire, instead names the next age as the Dragon Age. It is predicted to be an age of violence and upheaval.

At the Battle of River Dane, the last two legions of chevaliers that the Emperor sent to the occupied Ferelden are defeated by the rebels who are led by Loghain Mac Tir.

The Seekers of Truth abandon Therinfal Redoubt in Ferelden due to lack of funding.

9:2 Dragon: Led by the young Prince Maric, the Fereldan rebels finally succeed in driving out the Orlesian occupational force. He kills the usurper King Meghren in a duel at Fort Drakon.

Less than a few weeks after Maric's ascension, Chivalry Threnhold becomes Viscount of Kirkwall.

A short time later, Antiva is shaken by a civil war and the much maligned "Three-Queens Era" begins.
The ruling Archon of Tevinter Imperium faces usurpation.

Rhys, son of Wynne is born.

9:3 Dragon: Maric Theirin is crowned as King of Ferelden.

9:4 Dragon: Birth of Celene Valmont, future empress of Orlais.

9:5 Dragon: Birth of Cailan Theirin, future king of Ferelden.

Knight-Captain Greagoir is named Knight-Commander of the Circle Tower.

9:8 Dragon: Death of Queen Rowan of Ferelden.

9:10 Dragon: Underneath Ferelden, the intelligent darkspawn known as the Architect attempts to kill the remaining Old Gods and taint the entire surface world. His efforts are thwarted by King Maric and a band of Grey Wardens.

King Maric allows the order of Grey Wardens to return to Ferelden after two centuries of exile.

A young female smith named Branka is made Paragon for her invention of smokeless coal.

Alistair, a future hero of the Fifth Blight and future king of Ferelden, is born in Ferelden.

9:12 Dragon: Thought by the Orzammar dwarves to have been long lost to the darkspawn, the dwarven kingdom of Kal-Sharok located deep beneath the Hunterhorn Mountains is rediscovered. The dwarves there are still resentful of Orzammar and refuse to bow to the dwarven king's authority.

The Kathaban of the Qunari navy launches an offensive on the Tevinter mainland with a fleet of warships and the entire beresaad kith is sent with them as a landing force. The Kathaban's campaign makes great progress, but his headway disappears when legions of Tevinter soldiers and mages retaliate in force.

The Qunari footholds in Tevinter are obliterated in the counterattack, and the Kathaban is forced to withdraw the fleet to Seheron. The entire antaam is shaken by the defeat, but none take it harder than the Kathaban himself, who resigns his role and returns to Par Vollen to be Kathaban no more.

9:13 Dragon: The fortress of Bownammar falls to a horde of darkspawn. Dwarven scholars believe that to be the first hints of a coming Blight.

9:14 Dragon: Perrin Threnhold is appointed viscount of Kirkwall.

9:16 Dragon: Anthony Pentaghast is murdered by a group of Apostates. His sister, Cassandra, begins training with the Seekers of Truth.

9:20 Dragon: Ferelden and Orlais officially make peace after the ascension of Empress Celene to the Orlesian throne.

Malcolm Hawke and his family settle down in the outskirts of Lothering.

Upon request of Arl Eamon Guerrin's pregnant wife Isolde, Alistair is sent to the Monastery at Bournshire.

Nevarra invades Orlais and seizes the town of Larécolte in the fields of Ghislain. Grand Duke Gaspard de Chalons leads the Orlesian defense, eventually driving the Nevarrans out of Orlais.

9:21 Dragon: After a failed attempt to oust the influential Templar Order from the city, Viscount Perrin Threnhold is executed and Marlowe Dumar is appointed Viscount of Kirkwall. Due to her part in the arrest of Viscount Threnhold, Meredith Stannard is promoted to Knight-Commander of Kirkwall by Grand Cleric Elthina.

9:22 Dragon: Blood mages, secretly in league with a rogue Grand Cleric of the Orlesian Chantry, conspire to assassinate Divine Beatrix III. A Seeker of Truth, Cassandra Pentaghast thwarts the conspiracy and is named Hero of Orlais and the Divine's Right Hand. This day is remembered as the "Day of Dragons" or "The Day of Black Skies".

9:23 Dragon: Vaea is born.

9:25 Dragon: King Maric of Ferelden is thought lost at sea, and imprisoned by Antivan Crows in Velabanchel.

Maric's son, Cailan, inherits the throne of Ferelden. Approximately one month later, Cailan marries Anora, daughter of Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir.

The Tamassrans elevate a new Arishok after the previous one died during a campaign on Seheron.

The Grey Wardens of Ferelden sense the first hints of a coming Blight.

9:27 Dragon: Malcolm Hawke, the apostate mage responsible for resealing Corypheus and father of the future Champion of Kirkwall, dies in Lothering.

Magister Urian Nihalias, along with a group of co-conspirators among the Imperial Templars and the Magisterium, ousts the ruling Black Divine. Nihalias becomes the new Black Divine afterwards.

9:28 Dragon: Paragon Branka takes her entire house, save her husband Oghren, into the Deep Roads in the hope of finding the Anvil of the Void and the secret of creating golems.

The lyrium-infused slave Fenris escapes from his master and heads to the south.

Leliana seeks refuge in the Lothering chantry.

9:29 Dragon: Alistair is recruited into the order of the Grey Wardens by the Warden-Commander of Ferelden, Duncan.

9:30 Dragon: The Fifth Blight begins in the Korcari Wilds and southern Ferelden when the Architect attempts to perform a modified Joining ritual on Urthemiel in the hopes of freeing the darkspawn from the call of the Old Gods, instead Urthemiel is corrupted into an Archdemon.

Arl Rendon Howe murders Teyrn Bryce Cousland and Teyrna Eleanor Cousland in a surprise attack on Highever after their son, Fergus Cousland, had already led most of the Teyrn's soldiers to Ostagar to join King Cailan's forces.

The Sabrae clan of the Dalish elves finds a tainted Eluvian in the wilds of Ferelden and loses two of their number to it. To escape the taint and the coming Blight, the clan crosses the Waking Sea to the Free Marches and sets up camp on Sundermount.

Crown Prince Trian Aeducan of Orzammar is murdered and his middle sibling is banished to the Deep Roads for the deed due to the machinations of their youngest brother, Bhelen. King Endrin Aeducan falls ill in his grief.

The Warden is inducted into the Grey Wardens.

Ferelden is defeated at the Battle of Ostagar by the darkspawn; the battle is lost when Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir deserts, resulting in the destruction of the Fereldan army, the near-destruction and exile of the Grey Warden order, and the deaths of King Cailan Theirin and Warden Commander Duncan.

The Warden and Alistair are saved by a Witch of the Wilds, Flemeth.

Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir returns to Denerim and declares himself regent, triggering the "Fereldan Civil War" between Ferelden's nobility.

Lothering is destroyed by the darkspawn, and the Hawke family (along with Aveline Vallen) flees to Kirkwall with the aid of Flemeth.

On the 8th day of Bloomingtide, the dam in Crestwood is broken in order to flood the invading darkspawn.

9:31 Dragon: Urthemiel is slain by Warden Amell in Ferelden at the Battle of Denerim, The Warden becomes the "Hero of Ferelden," and Ferelden now has a true ruler.

Orlesian Grey Wardens are dispatched to Ferelden to help disperse the darkspawn that failed to return to the Deep Roads after the archdemon was slain. They are put under the command of Lieutenant Gable of Vigil's Keep.

Events described in Dragon Age: Warden's Fall take place and Grey Warden Kristoff is killed by the minions of an intelligent brood mother known as the Mother while investigating the Blackmarsh.

The "Darkspawn Civil War" begins.

Remaining darkspawn in Ferelden are purged by the Warden-Commander and the replenished Fereldan Wardens. The Darkspawn Civil War ends.

The dwarves of Orzammar are able to reclaim the great thaig of Kal'Hirol.

Amgarrak Thaig is overrun by harvesters after failed attempts to re-create Caridin's golem research. The Warden-Commander of Ferelden slays one of them and destroys the research.

The Circle of Magi in Starkhaven burns to the ground. Its survivors are relocated to Kirkwall, making the Gallows the largest Circle within the Free Marches.

Qunari set out to meet Orlesian forces who agreed to return the Tome of Koslun to them. However, the book is intercepted by a Rivaini pirate. Following a storm, both ships founder off the coast of Kirkwall. The Arishok and his surviving army take up residence in the Qunari Compound, a section of the docks set aside for them by the Viscount, until they can reclaim the Tome of Koslun.

A shipwrecked Qunari mage is imprisoned underneath Kirkwall by the Chantry after causing the destruction of an entire village. The Saarebas uses a Dalish artifact in an attempt to tear the Veil. A Qunari agent, Tallis, is sent to retrieve him.

Hawke of Kirkwall helps fund an expedition to the Deep Roads with Bartrand Tethras and Varric Tethras. They discover an ancient, pre-First Blight Primeval Thaig, and an ancient lyrium idol contained within.

9:31 Dragon: An Orlesian noble by the name of Prosper de Montfort strikes a deal with a Tal-Vashoth named Salit to purchase a list of Qunari sleeper agents. He is killed by Hawke.

Corypheus awakens in his prison and is defeated by Hawke.

9:32 Dragon: The Warden-Commander of Ferelden confronts Morrigan in the Dragonbone Wastes; she leaves through an Eluvian.

The elves of Edgehall Alienage revolt against their Arl; many elves are killed.

9:34 Dragon: After years of anti-Qunari sentiments and incidents that the Qunari see as outsiders meddling in their affairs, the Arishok decides to overthrow Kirkwall's rulers to impose order on the city, starting the First Battle of Kirkwall.

Marlowe Dumar is killed by the Qunari.

Hawke assists in repelling the Qunari, and is named "Champion of Kirkwall" by Kirkwall's Knight-Commander, Meredith Stannard.

Meredith Stannard takes up stewardship of Kirkwall and imposes tighter sanctions on the Kirkwall Circle of Magi.

Revered Mother Dorothea ascends as Divine of The Chantry, taking the name Justinia V after her predecessor succumbs to old age after long suffering from dementia.

9:35 Dragon: Lord Vincent Callier and his family are ambushed by Thom Rainier and his soldiers on their way to their summer residence at Lake Celestine. None of the lord's family survive.

9:36-37 Dragon: The elves of Edgehall rebel against their arl once again. After heavy elven casualties, Ser Aaron steps in and resolves the issue.

King Alistair decrees that the arl of Edgehall cannot touch the elves' sacred tree, Vhenadahl.

9:37 Dragon: An apostate mage, Anders, destroys the Kirkwall chantry, igniting the Kirkwall Rebellion and inspiring mages throughout Thedas to rebel against the Circle system.

The Champion of Kirkwall kills First Enchanter Orsino and Knight-Commander Meredith Stannard during the rebellion in Kirkwall and later flees the city.

Fiona is elected as Grand Enchanter, and the College of Enchanters rejects a motion to dissolve the Circle of
Magi at the urging of Senior Enchanter Wynne.

Morrigan resurfaces at the imperial court of Val Royeaux and is appointed an "arcane advisor" to Empress Celene I.

9:38 Dragon: The Chantry dissolves the College of Enchanters and refuses to allow any future meetings.

King Alistair of Ferelden, with the help of Isabela and Varric Tethras, travels to Antiva City looking for clues regarding King Maric's ultimate fate.

Qunari forces under the command of the new Arishok, formerly Sten, assault the Tevinter fortress of Ath Velanis in Seheron with King Alistair in order to stop Aurelian Titus' exploitation of King Maric and the Magrallen.

9:38–9:39 Dragon: Unrest brews in Orlais as Grand Duke Gaspard de Chalons stirs dissent against reigning Empress Celene, eventually starting the War of the Lions.

9:40 Dragon: Empress Celene is called out of Val Royeaux after news of an elven rebellion in Halamshiral. The move is thought to have been orchestrated by Gaspard. Celene's absence fuels rumors of her death or capture.

Anticipating unrest, the Sun Gates to Val Royeaux are ordered closed for the first time since dragons attacked the city in 9:22 Dragon.

Briala, the former spymaster, handmaiden, and lover to Empress Celene, reactivates the Eluvian network.

Gaspard de Chalons returns to Val Chevin to resume the civil war; the missing Empress Celene reappears at the Winter Palace near Halamshiral and begins to marshal her own forces.

A violent uprising at the White Spire leaves many senior mages dead. The uprising is apparently supported by the Divine through her agents, including Sister Nightingale.

Following the conflict at the White Spire, Lord Seeker Lambert van Reeves cancels the Nevarran Accord, severing ties between the Seekers and the Chantry. Allegiances between amongst the Seekers of Truth and Templars are split. Some still support the Divine.

The Circle of Dairsmuid in Rivain is annulled.

The College of Enchanters votes to separate from the Chantry. Lord Seeker Lambert declares the Circle of Magi no more. The future of mages in Thedas is uncertain.

Lord Seeker Lambert goes missing and is presumed dead. Lucius Corin becomes the next Lord Seeker.

Cassandra Pentaghast, one of the few Seekers of Truth still loyal to the Chantry, and Leliana, Divine Justinia V's spymaster, set out to restore the Inquisition. Initially they seek out the Warden-Commander to lead the new Inquisition, but they are unable to find them. Their search for the Champion of Kirkwall as a potential Inquisitor leads them to capture and interrogate Varric Tethras, one of Hawke's former companions.

The Dread Wolf awakens after millennia of slumber and presents himself as a modern elven apostate, using the name Solas.

9:41 Dragon: Several mages from the Hossberg Circle of Magi join the Grey Wardens and begin researching records from the Fourth Blight, uncovering the diary of a Grey Warden named Isseya, the sister of Garahel, one of the last griffon riders.

Divine Justinia V calls for a Divine Conclave between the mages and Templars at the Temple of Sacred Ashes to negotiate an end to the Mage-Templar War. The Conclave is disrupted by Corypheus, who uses an elven artifact in a ritual sacrificing Justinia V. The ritual is interrupted, and the resulting Breach destroys the temple and kills the assembled leaders of the mages, Templars, and Chantry.

A survivor of the Breach is found with a mark that can control the Breach and the rifts created by its eruption. After calming the Breach, the survivor is hailed as the Herald of Andraste. The Herald becomes a leading figure of the reborn Inquisition, based out of Haven, which seeks to seal the Breach and restore order to Thedas.

The Mage-Templar War ends as the Inquisition recruits the rebel mages to their cause as allies. The remaining faction is corrupted by Corypheus into the Red Templars, led by the Templar Samson.

The Herald seals the Breach with the help of the mages. Corypheus leads his army in a surprise assault on the Inquisition to reclaim the Anchor from the Herald. The Inquisition escapes Haven and regroups at the mountain fortress Skyhold. The Herald is officially named Inquisitor, the leader of the Inquisition.

The Grey Wardens in Orlais all begin to hear a false Calling and are scared into desperation to end all Blights before their perceived end. They join forces with the Venatori and blood sacrifice their own warriors to raise a demon army, ostensibly to march into the Deep Roads and kill the remaining Old Gods.

The Inquisition learns that they are being manipulated and lays siege to their base at Adamant Fortress, putting an end to their machinations. After defeating the Nightmare demon that was controlling the Grey Warden mages, the Inquisitor decides to ally with the surviving Grey Wardens.

The Inquisitor attends a ball held by Empress Celene I at her winter palace in Halamshiral after learning of an assassination plot against her. The Inquisitor's actions resolve the Orlesian Civil War and decide who holds the throne of Orlais. The throne is kept by Empress Celene who rules with Briala.

9:42 Dragon: The Inquisition pursues Corypheus to the Temple of Mythal in the Arbor Wilds, where he attempts to gain the knowledge to use the eluvian network and so reenter the Black City.

Professor Kenric and a team of researchers find clues regarding Inquisitor Ameridan's disappearance. Prompted by Scout Harding, the Inquisitor joins the research team.

The trail left behind by Ameridan leads to an old Tevinter Fortress in the Frostback Basin, occupied by the Jaws of Hakkon a group of Avvar seeking to free their god Hakkon who is possessing a high dragon.

Aided by the Avvar of Stone-Bear Hold, the Inquisitor raids the Tevinter fortress and finds Inquisitor Ameridan in a time-still spell. After unbinding the spell, Ameridan dies and the Inquisitor defeats Hakkon.

A series of earthquakes caused by tremors cause damage in Orzammar's lyrium mines. The Inquisitor, with the help of Shaper Valta and a group of the Legion of the Dead led by Lieutenant Renn, investigate the cause of these tremors.

They descend deep below the Deep Roads and the lost Heidrun Thaig and discover a place filled with lyrium veins, the Bastion of the Pure. After passing an unknown underground sea they discover the Wellspring and realize that they are inside the Titan which is causing the quakes.

At the center they find its beating heart and subsequently defeat the Guardian. However, before the confrontation, Valta was struck by something which connected her with the Stone and remains in the Wellspring to investigate further.

After the Inquisition foils his plans, in desperation, Corypheus retreats to the Temple of Sacred Ashes to reopen the Breach. The Inquisitor finally defeats Corypheus and reseals the Breach.

Divine Victoria, Leliana the former Left Hand of Divine Justinia, is elected to lead the Chantry.

A clutch of thirteen live griffons are discovered at Red Bride's Grave in the Anderfels by a group of Grey Warden-Recruits.

Warden Commander Amell returns from her search for a cure to The Calling with the general location of the Cure, and seeks out the Inquisitions help in finding it.

The Inquisition uses their vast resources to determine that the Cure to The Calling lies in the Elvhen Ruins of Arlathan.

Tevinter Magister Calpernia shows interest in the Cure, prompting The Wardens to formally team up with the Inquisition to secure the Cure before Tevinter can.